Professional Development and Community School Leaders and Administration Whole School
We worked with teachers in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and several US territories—as well as 32 countries around the world!
The farthest someone traveled to attend an RC workshop was from Punjab, Pakistan to San Francisco, CA (7,582.65 miles).
The farthest an RC book has traveled this year: Yardsticks traveled from our warehouse in Fitchburg, MA to Berrimah in Australia’s Northern Territory (9,959.79 miles).
Our consultants visited almost 3,000 elementary and middle school classrooms around the globe as a part of the Kaleidoscope observation and feedback process! Being there as classrooms—and whole schools—transform into safe, joyful, and engaging learning communities continues to be an honor.
The kaleidoscope was invented by Scottish scientist David Brewster in 1816. He named it “kaleidoscope” from the Greek words:
Therefore, kaleidoscope means “beautiful form watcher”.
In an article posted on Forbes.com in January, Stacey Childress, CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, asked whether the “innovation window” opened by social-emotional learning had already closed. The answer, of course, is no!
After 35 years of creating books, resources and professional development programs for educators, we’re entering the next phase of social-emotional learning, and we couldn’t be more excited about the future.
As well as continuing to provide innovative new books and professional development programs, we’re currently finalizing a set of comprehensive SEL Standards for grades K-8! We’re designing these standards to help you teach students developmentally appropriate skills that will enable them to acquire five SEL competencies: Cooperation, Assertiveness, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control.